Drapery-supporting device.



PATENTED APR. 30, 1907'.

G. LEVY. DRAPERY SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY!). 1906.

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CHARLES LEVY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DRAPERY-SUPPORTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed July 9,1906. serial No. 325,267.

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

and passed through or under the base or Be it known that I, CHARLEsLEVY, a citilarger spiral of the draping device as shown zen of theUnited States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDraping- Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification,such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to what are commonly known as drapery hooks foruse on a Window frame or other frame for draping window curtains orother articles, and the object thereof is to provide an improved deviceof this class which may be easily connected with a window or otherframe, and by means of which a window curtain or other article may beeasily and conveniently draped and formed into what are known asrosettes.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a face view of my improved draping device; Fig. 2 a sideview thereof;

Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the method of using thedevice; Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a complete rosetteformed on my improved draping de vice, the rosette being formed from awindow curtain or other article; and, Fig. 5 an inside view of a part ofa window frame showing one Window curtain and showing the window curtaindraped and formed into a rosette.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a device a of the classspecified, composed of a strong wire bent into a conical spiral form andprovided at its apex with a projecting prong or screw (0 which may bedriven into a window or other frame or screwed into such frame.

Inpractice, the part a is preferably made in the form of a prong and ahole is made in j the window or other frame by means of an awl orsimilar device and the prong a is forced or driven into said hole.

In draping a window curtain or other article, the inner edge of thecurtain is drawn up in Fig. 3 and enough of the material is drawnthrough or under said spiral to form the rosette 1) shown in Figs. I and5, and in this operation the material that is drawn through the spiralis folded around the larger or base coil thereof, and tucked underneathand around the body of the complete spiral, and this operation forms thecomplete rosette which will retain its form under ordinary circumstanceswithout any fastening, but in practice a pin or similar device may beemploycd for securing the folded edge of the curtain or drapery aroundthe body of the draping device.

The material 0 shown in Figs. .3 and at from which the rosette b isformed may consist of a curtain, portiere or other article, and suchmaterial or article wherever employed may be conveniently draped in themanner described by using my improved draping device, but the saiddevice will be found most convenient for draping window curtains asshown in Fig. 5.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A draping device or hook composed of wire bent into the form of aconical spiral and provided at its apex with a central projecting prong.

2. A device of the class described, composed of wire and comprising anopen wound spirally formed cone provided at its apex with a centralpointed projection whereby it may be secured to a support and adapted toserve for the formation of a rosette in the process of draping.

3. A draping device composed of wire bent to form an open spiral coneand the apex of which is provided with a projecting prong which extendstherefrom in line with the axis of the cone.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 7th day of July 1906.

. CHARLES LEVY. WVitnesses:

C. J. KLEIN, F. A. STEWART.

